George Albert Dickson

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George Albert Dickson

"WE DON''T DIE, WE JUST GRADUATE" George A. Dickson

George Albert Dickson, 91, beloved and loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and dear friend graduated from this earthly probationary school of trials and learning. His graduation day was July 10, 2011. He has gone on to a greater school of higher learning to continue his progression toward Eternal Life, his lifelong goal.

George was born August 22, 1919 in Evanston, WY; to Rufus and Catherine Lee Dickson. In 1923 the family moved to Layton, Utah to operate the Thornley farm in East Layton. As a young boy he worked with his father on the farm. At eight he could run a team of draft horses plowing, harrowing, planting and mowing. He took pride in missing some school work to do a man''s work. He helped his mother run the farm while his father served a six month mission in the Eastern States. George graduated from Davis High School in 1937. In 1939 he served a church mission in the Southern States, which included Florida, for two years.

George worked his way through, and graduated from Weber State College in 1944. He excelled in Mathematics and English literature. He enjoyed Shakespeare, and would often quote from his works. In 1948 he married Sally Mae Allen in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their home in Sunset, Utah for 38 years, then moved to Fruit Heights, Utah.

George was a dedicated, loving, patient husband and father, church worker and provider. Just out of college he worked as a broker for Wilson Meat Co. based in Chicago covering five states. To be home with his family, he left Wilson and worked for Marquardt Corp. in Ogden as an accountant. Later he worked at the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City as an accountant, until he retired in 1981. While doing the latter two jobs, he was also the City Recorder for Sunset City for 34 years. He felt blessed to be able to provide for his family and send his five sons on missions.

He had many church callings. Among them were Elder''s Quorum President, Assistant ward clerk, ward clerk, 2nd and 1st counselor in the bishopric, member of the Stake High Council in Sunset Stake, and Bishop of the Sunset 2nd Ward. In March of 1987 George and Sally moved to Fruit Heights, Utah. Eight weeks later they left for a mission in Oahu, Hawaii, as Hawaii Temple Visitor''s Center missionaries. Later they served as ordinance workers in the Bountiful Temple for two years. George loved missionary work and hoped he and Sally could go on another mission, but his health prevented it. He was looking forward to being a missionary in the Spirit World. He was a great Scriptorian and has read the Book of Mormon countless times. He would quote from it, the Bible and Doctrine and Covenants often in conversations and talks.

He loved working in his large beautiful yard and garden in Fruit Heights, keeping them manicured until he lost his vision at 90.

He loved his wife and his children more than anything else in the world. Left behind waiting to graduate, are his wife Sally of 63 years, and six children: George Jr. (Jill), Lee (Kim), Dan (Judi), Joel (Teresa), Ann de Jong (John), Mark (Susan), 27 grandchildren, 30 A½ great-grandchildren, two brothers, W. Flint (Ruth), Joseph (Johnnie), one sister Barbara Jones (Reid), many nieces, nephews, cousins, and close dear friends from Sunset, Fruit Heights, and elsewhere in the state.

Those who graduated before him include his parents, sister, Marie Oviatt and her husband Reid, his sister Marjorie Smith and her husband Keith S. Smith and four nephews, Gary Oviatt, Justin Jones, Dickson Smith, Douglas Smith, and many friends.

Happy Graduation Day George!

Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 11 a.m. at the Fruit Heights 5th Ward Chapel, 24 So. Country Lane. Friends may visit family on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist''s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main and Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment, Lindquist''s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road, So. Ogden.

The family wants to thank all those at Rocky Mountain Hospice, Pheasant View Assisted Living, and Charlotte Brown for their excellent care of George in the last weeks of his life.